Food and Drink

How Alaska eats: We’re takin’ Hasselback

Newsletter #45: Let the beet drop

Ever since I read her Hasselback beet recipe this week, Kim Sunée has got me on a Hasselback kick. I have been lining all kinds of things up between spoons, slicing them thin (and making “Baywatch” jokes on Instagram even though we all know it’s David Hasselhoff; I just LOVE using my Hasselhoff GIF collection). Hasselback is usually a potato thing, but man, beets are a great idea. Also been doing big fat carrots. Kim includes a recipe for an orange-scented, horseradish sour cream and some crunchy savory granola. The whole combo is fantastic.

Guess what else I’m into? Maya Wilson’s big, soft grocery-store style frosted sugar cookies at home. They are just so gorgeous, plus the kids love sprinkles.

Who among you has a case of the sniffles? It appears to be going around. You might think about some of this lemon-chicken soup with rice? To go with it: a hot sauce kale salad with crispy chickpeas. Or Kim Sunée’s recipe for parsley-celery leaf salad with sautéed dates. And a warm tonic with birch syrup at bedtime.

[Read previous newsletters here. Find more Alaska recipes here.]

Let us welcome to the food reviewer stable Joey Carreon, who came to his review of Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers with plenty of chicken-finger eating experience. He’s got everything you need to know before you go.

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RECIPE: HASSELBACK BEETS WITH SAVORY GRANOLA AND ORANGE-HORSERADISH CREAM

Julia O'Malley

Anchorage-based Julia O'Malley is a former ADN reporter, columnist and editor. She received a James Beard national food writing award in 2018, and a collection of her work, "The Whale and the Cupcake: Stories of Subsistence, Longing, and Community in Alaska," was published in 2019. She's currently writer in residence at the Anchorage Museum.

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